This is an on-again, off-again pop-culture conundrum that has been plaguing the Internet for years:
How could the McAllisters afford that house and that Paris trip in Home Alone?
You’ve seen the 1990 comedy Home Alone, in which a grade-school Macaulay Culkin slapstick-comically defends his palatial suburban-Chicago home from burglars after he is accidentally left behind when his extended family flies off to Paris for a festive vacay. It’s all a bit preposterous, but the real insanity is this: what the heck does little Kevin’s dad (played by John Heard) do for a living that he can afford that huge house and that Christmas (ie, high-season) trip, including first-class airfare for the adults, for his extended family?
I mean, obviously, Kevin’s dad is either in finance or in the mafia, but those are boring answers to the question. What are the bonkers possibilities? Where did that kind of money come from?
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He runs a chain of minimum security orphanariums (generally referred to as “a farm upstate”).
Mr. McAllister was selling pictures of his feet on Only Fans. Obvs.
And the fact that he was doing it in 1990 shows just how far ahead of the curve he was when it comes to technology.